Steve Sloan is Deputy Fire Chief of Westbrook Fire Dept. He was born and raised in Cumberland ME where he currently resides with his wife Kate and two young daughters Lily and Emma. Steve is a 1999 graduate of Greely High School and attended SMTC where he received a degree in Applied Science/Paramedics.
Steve previously worked in the private sector for an ambulance service. He started with the Scarborough Fire Dept in 2004 where he rose to rank of lieutenant. He came to Westbrook in 2015. He spends much of his spare time with his family. They like to read, play outside and swim in their pool. He also enjoys working in his gardens. His wife Kate, originally from Maryland, works for Maine Medical Center Partners.
My Place Teen Center 20th Anniversary - MPTC celebrates 20 years of serving kids in Westbrook this Friday May 18. MPTC is a free, year-round, after-school program (five hours/day) for kids, ages 10-18. A safe haven for youth — sustaining them with comfort, meals, resources, and hope. They are raising funds to sponsor 200 kids by June 30. If you can help, go to http://myplaceteencenter.org/donate/ or send your donation to 755 Main Street, Westbrook, ME 04092. $80 funds a kid for one month. $960 funds a kid for one year.
Reminder! Can Tabs for Ronald MacDonald House – Ongoing - Thank you for continuing to collect can tabs. Please bring your collection to our meeting on May 15, or any subsequent meeting this spring/summer. Pat and Cliff Plummer and looking forward to accepting them for Ronald McDonald House.
The Locker Project - Note change of time for rest of School Year due to elimination of early release. Fresh food and baked goods distribution at Westbrook High School in the cafeteria. Two or three volunteer needed for each of these upcoming dates. Approx 1:45-3PM each time. Sign in at front office and go to cafeteria. Wednesdays May 16, 30 and June 13. First event at Westbrook Community Center will be June 27. Help lay out food on tables and interact with the kids to encourage them to take items. You will be a welcoming presence, making sure people know they are invited to take food. Everyone is invited to bring food home with them. This a great way to de-stigmatize free food distributions, particularly in the case of fresh food that would otherwise be wasted. If you can help on any of these dates, please contact Christine Johnson. For more information, or to donate, visit their website: mainelockerproject.org
FBC Westbrook Free Community Meal - Saturday May 19. Monthly, free, community dinner. Whether you are hungry for a delicious meal or hungry to get out and interact with others, they would love for you to be their guest. Yes, you can donate toward next month's meal but it's not necessary. This is not a fundraiser, it's a community connecting night with great food. They've been doing these dinners for going on 10 years. Come and bring a friend .
Back to Summer Bash - to benefit Discover Downtown Westbrook. Thursday May 31. Two seatings 5:30 and 7PM. $25. At Westbook House of Pizza on Blue Note Plaza in downtown Westbrook. For more information and to purchase tickets: https://whennow.com/event/blue-note-bash---fundraiser-dinner
Clean up Day at Camp Hinds - Saturday June 9, 146 Plains Road - Raymond - Starting 9AM until finished. Jobs included staining/painting shed and new RYLA RIDGE Avery Pavilion, spreading mulch and clearing trails. Please bring wheelbarrow and outdoor tools for clearing trails, shovel, rakes. Send email to Phil Giordano if you are interested and can help to philtastic7780@gmail.com Bring a boxed lunch.
Camp Registration and RYLA Welcome - Camp Hinds - Saturday June 24, 7:45AM to 12:30PM – Direct and sign in students, speak with parents. After registration you can tour the campus and stay for the big RYLA opening at 11:00 followed by lunch. Please contact Danielle Treadwell at danielleptreadwell@gmail.com to reserve a spot for helping.
Princeton Elementary School Literacy Project - Books are being collected for the library at the Elementary School in Princeton ME in Washington County. Books will also be given to students in Grades 1-8 for their personal use. A week long Literacy program will engage the students in active reading for one week in July. Gently used donations are welcomed. Classics are encouraged as well as series. The goal is to collect up to 800 books. Please bring donations to any meeting between now and July 17.
CLYNK for Literacy - Ongoing - Don't forget to keep filling those bags to help fund the children's books we ask our speakers to sign for the Baxter and Walker Libraries. Extra bags are always available at our meetings. If you have been working on filling a bag for a very long time (6 months or more), please consider returning it and starting a new one. Thank you for your ongoing support of this fundraiser!
Donate to our Club's Charity through Amazon Smile – Ongoing - If you order items from Amazon.com, even if not very often, you can help Westbrook Gorham Rotary Club Charities. Go to http://smile.amazon.com/. Search for our Charity and select it. You may need to login to your Amazon account before being able to finalize your selection. Then, when you shop Amazon.com (always starting from http://smile.amazon.com/) a portion of every purchase will be donated to our charity.
Henry Saunders' 90th Birthday Party - Saturday June 23, 2018, 11AM- 3PM, including social, light lunch & cake cutting. 15 Long Point Rd, Standish, ME. Casual attire. Bring your swimsuits, lawn chairs, towels, and sunscreen. Come enjoy the lake views and pebble beach. Members who know Henry are welcome to attend. RSVP to Henry's daughter Leslie McManus. 105 Otter Dr Standish ME 04084 207-642-3057. If you have picture or a story to share, please send them along with your response. A scrap book is being made to present to Henry. Please no gifts.
Westbrook Together Days - Friday-Saturday June 1-2. Food, music, parade, fireworks, and family fun!! Vendors are being asked to sign up by May 6 at http://westbrooktogetherdays.com/vendors/
Gorham Community Night at the Ball Park - Buy your tickets today!! Thursday, July 12, 2018. The Portland Sea Dogs, AA Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, AA Affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays at 7:00 PM. Ticket $9 Gorham Night at Sea Dogs
Westbrook Community Night at the Ball Park – Wednesday, August 15, 2018. The Portland Sea Dogs take on the Trenton Thunder, AA Affiliate of the New York Yankees at 7:00 PM. Ticket $9 Westbrook Night at Sea Dogs
Community Food Drive - Hannaford Drive a Saco Biddeford Savings parking lot- Saturday August 18, 10AM-2PM. Contact Sarah Hutchins to volunteer.
Westbrook-Gorham Rotary Annual Golf Tournament - Tuesday September 18, 2018 at Gorham Country Club.
There are lots of upcoming opportunities for networking, sharing, and learning with Rotarians from across our District. Also featured are some fun fundraisers being held by nearby clubs.
Party with a Purpose 2018 - Fundraiser of Portland Sunrise Rotary - Wednesday May 16, 5:30PM at Dimillo’s - $30 - Raising funds for the Maine Children’s Cancer Program. Live and silent auction. Tickets are available at the door as well as on line at https://fundraising.mmc.org/mccp/rotarysocial
Mid-Coast Maine’s Got Talent – Friday May 18, 7PM Crooker Theater, 116 Maquoit Rd, Brunswick, Adults $12, Seniors & Students $10, Families $30. Benefit Brunswick Rotary Club Charities
8th Annual Pizza Challenge and Silent Auction - Fundraiser of Sebago Lake Rotary Club - Thursday May 24,5-7PM. In front of Smitty's Cinema, 795 Roosevelt Trail, Windham
5th Annual Touch a Truck – Fundraiser and Family Fun Event of Scarborough Rotary – Saturday June 2, 10AM-2PM, Scarborough Downs - 90 Payne Road - Scarborough, ME $5 person/$20 family. Get up close and personal with Fire Trucks, Police Vehicles, Bucket Trucks, Tractors, Heavy Equipment, Delivery Trucks, School Bus, Book Mobile and so much more. Concessions available and other vendors - Pony Rides, Music, Face Painting and more.
Maine Outdoor Challenge – Join the Portland Rotary Club during June 4th - 6th and try your hand at some of Maine’s outdoor sporting events. Put together a team of 5 to compete in archery, clay shooting, fly fishing and more. To learn more visit Maine Outdoor Challenge and help us raise money for the Boys & Girls Club of Maine. All sporting events take place at the LLBean Outdoor Discovery School.
9th Annual Golf Tournament – Fundraiser of Bridgton Lakes Region Rotary – Saturday June 9, 8AM - Bridgton Highlands Golf and Tennis Club. For more info email George Klauber: georgeklauber@gmail.com
Final Campfire at Camp Hinds – June 26, 6-10PM or you can just come for dinner at 6:00 -7:4PM. Cost is $10.00. Get a great feel of how campers experience RYLA. If interested, please send Phil an email at philtastic7780@gmail.com.
Dr Bruce Dyer introduced the current President of WHS Interact, Morgan Kendall. Morgan is headed to USM in the fall to major in Entrepreneurship. Bruce told us that she is forward thinking and leads by example and he wanted to recognized her for her energy and passion.
Bruce Dyer
Morgan went on to tell us about some of the projects the WHS Interact Club has been up to this year. During the summer, they went to Walker Field to help hand out meals for the summer meal program. Members worked at a local soup kitchen including serving and cleaning up. They rang bells at Shaw’s during the Christmas season for the Salvation Army. As we saw in a December Scribbler, they decorated a tree for the Festival of Trees with a Literacy theme.
Morgan Kendall
At Congin School, they assisted with the Glow Dance, a fun event with lots of colors under blacklight. They created bags of creative materials given to each home room so students could create and write cards to Parkland students. They baked pies at Thanksgiving for the Westbrook Food Pantry and three members attended Rotary UN Day in New Year. Several members of Interact have participated in Big Brothers/Big Sisters throughout their high school years.
At the conclusion of the Interact presentation, Hal Thomas thanked Bruce for his support of RYLA over the years. Bruce called RYLA a “life changing experience for our students”. Westbrook Gorham Rotary is looking forward to supporting a record 10 students to RYLA this summer.
L-R: Rylee Troiano, Kimmie Goddard, Morgan Kendall,
During the Interact Club visit to our meeting of May 8, Dr Bruce Dyer introduced Devin Sloan, a WHS senior and film maker with Project Aware, a non-profit that makes films for youth, by youth, about youth. He started his freshman year working on the film Hooked which is featured on the Project Aware website. This film is about a high school football player who is hurt and becomes hooked on painkillers. Devin also worked with the Westbrook Police Dept to complete a film about recovering addicts who have been clean for a while. Later, he filmed a Public Service Announcement about social media use.
Devin is now working on a new piece that he is writing, directing and editing that is about the relationship between teachers and students. He has raised $1500 towards this project but still needs to raise $2200 more to complete the project. If you would like to help, you can visit the Project Aware website: http://projectaware.net/ or send a check payable to Project Aware at PO Box 1244, Saco, ME 04072
All Project AWARE programs support teens telling real life stories in a powerful way. Young people create high quality movies that address social issues and make a difference. Programs also increase marketable skills teens prepare themselves for the job market.
If you have an idea for a speaker or program, please contact Christine Johnson at cejinmaine@gmail.com. We are also interested in ideas for periodic evening meetings, service projects in lieu of meetings, or in-meeting service projects
We are now scheduling programs for August and September.
Here is the list of upcoming speakers and programs:
* 5/15 - Nancy Gallinaro - Just Love Ministry
* 5/22 - Guatemala Team Report
* 5/29 - Pete DeWitt - Idexx
* 6/5 - Final Club Assembly of 2017-2018
* 6/12 - Anna Turcotte - The Republic of Artsakh
* 6/19 - John Grew - Maine Audobon
* 6/26 - Changeover
* 7/3 - No Meeting -Happy Independence Day
* 7/10 - No Lunch Meeting - Evening Event
See you at the Lobster Bake
* 7/17 - John Lobosco - District Governor Visit - Be the Inspiration
Rotary is about fellowship, as well as service to our community. Even if you must miss a meeting, you can remain engaged by attending Rotary-sponsored events of our club or other clubs like fundraisers, by selling Christmas Trees, by volunteering at our Golf Tournament or our Road Race, or by attending District events or training. Just let our Secretary Mike Foley know when you have participated in any of these activities at mfoley@me.com
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